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January 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock The world faces an increasing shortage of housing and an escalating climate emergency. These urgent global issues call for quick action and innovative solutions. The numbers show us how stark things are. Construction activities ... <a title="A prefab building revolution can help resolve both the climate and housing crises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/12/a-prefab-building-revolution-can-help-resolve-both-the-climate-and-housing-crises-220290/" aria-label="Read more about A prefab building revolution can help resolve both the climate and housing crises">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia verbaska/Shutterstock Do you have family members or friends sick with a respiratory infection? If so, there’s a good chance it’s COVID, caused by the JN.1 variant currently circulating in Australia. In particular, New South Wales is ... <a title="COVID is surging in Australia – and only 1 in 5 older adults are up to date with their boosters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/covid-is-surging-in-australia-and-only-1-in-5-older-adults-are-up-to-date-with-their-boosters-220839/" aria-label="Read more about COVID is surging in Australia – and only 1 in 5 older adults are up to date with their boosters">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent At least 10 people are dead and dozens injured after 24 hours of looting in Papua New Guinea, during which several buildings were torched. Chaos broke out in Port Moresby as looters and opportunists took advantage of a protest by the country’s police and military. People have been ... <a title="At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/at-least-10-dead-after-looting-fires-on-port-moresbys-darkest-day/" aria-label="Read more about At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Goldsworthy, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO fizkes/Shutterstock Despite so many people having air conditioning at home now, many are still unsure how to use it efficiently. And air conditioning uses a lot of energy. For example, running all the lights in an average home all day and ... <a title="How do I use air conditioning efficiently? Is it better to blast it briefly throughout the day, or just leave it on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/how-do-i-use-air-conditioning-efficiently-is-it-better-to-blast-it-briefly-throughout-the-day-or-just-leave-it-on-220130/" aria-label="Read more about How do I use air conditioning efficiently? Is it better to blast it briefly throughout the day, or just leave it on?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The pro-independence United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has declared a boycott of the Indonesian elections next month and has called on Papuans to “not bow down to the system or constitution of your Indonesian occupier”. The movement’s president Benny Wenda and prime minister Edison Waromi have announced in a joint ... <a title="West Papuan call to boycott Indonesian elections and ‘reclaim sovereignty’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/west-papuan-call-to-boycott-indonesian-elections-and-reclaim-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan call to boycott Indonesian elections and ‘reclaim sovereignty’">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Shops have been set on fire or looted in parts of Papua New Guinea’s capital Port Moresby as unrest broke out during a police and military strike. The protest over unexplained pay deductions to salaries of police, military, and correctional services has ... <a title="Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/looting-breaks-out-in-png-capital-during-police-and-military-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Looting breaks out in PNG capital during police and military strike">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
The usually festive Christmas season in West Papua was marred by the death of beloved Papua Governor and Chief Lukas Enembe in an Indonesian military hospital on Boxing Day. The author personally witnessed the emotional village scenes of his burial and accuses the Indonesian authorities of driving him to his death through draconian treatment. Today ... <a title="Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/revered-papuan-chief-lukas-enembe-tortured-to-death-like-a-boiling-frog/" aria-label="Read more about Revered Papuan chief Lukas Enembe ‘tortured to death like a boiling frog’">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since October 7 is many times worse than what happened on that day by any conceivable metric; the only way to feel otherwise is to believe Israeli lives are worth many times more than Palestinian lives. How is Israeli ... <a title="This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/this-genocide-is-being-live-streamed-we-cant-say-we-didnt-know/" aria-label="Read more about This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kira Westaway, Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Artist’s impression of a group of Gigantopithecus blacki in a forest in southern China. Garcia/Joannes-Boyau (Southern Cross University) Giant creatures are usually associated with dinosaurs, woolly mammoths or mystical beasts. But if you go back though the ... <a title="Giant ‘kings of apes’ once roamed southern China. We solved the mystery of their extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/giant-kings-of-apes-once-roamed-southern-china-we-solved-the-mystery-of-their-extinction-219304/" aria-label="Read more about Giant ‘kings of apes’ once roamed southern China. We solved the mystery of their extinction">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Poulton, Senior Lecturer, Brain Mind Centre Nepean, University of Sydney Shutterstock Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that can affect all stages of life. Medication is not the only treatment, but it is often the treatment that can make the most obvious difference to ... <a title="ADHD medication – can you take it long term? What are the risks and do benefits continue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/adhd-medication-can-you-take-it-long-term-what-are-the-risks-and-do-benefits-continue-218694/" aria-label="Read more about ADHD medication – can you take it long term? What are the risks and do benefits continue?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University 2023 was a year of record-breaking heat, devastating storms and floods, deepening droughts and raging wildfires. These events showed how climate change is affecting the global water cycle and our ... <a title="How 2023’s record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/how-2023s-record-heat-worsened-droughts-floods-and-bushfires-around-the-world-220836/" aria-label="Read more about How 2023’s record heat worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anchal Garg, Psychology researcher, Bond University George Milton/ Pexels , CC BY Have you ever found yourself thinking about loved ones during a boring meeting? Or going over the plot of a movie you recently watched during a drive to the supermarket? This is the cognitive phenomenon ... <a title="It’s normal for your mind to wander. Here’s how to maximise the benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/11/its-normal-for-your-mind-to-wander-heres-how-to-maximise-the-benefits-219490/" aria-label="Read more about It’s normal for your mind to wander. Here’s how to maximise the benefits">Read more</a>
